Bug#527860: xserver-xorg: Related to bug 527872
On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 13:04:45 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> I can reproduce the problem on two different machines. I also observed
> the problem noted in bug 527872, that if I directly run /etc/init.d/dbus
> restart in an X session, the X server dies, and when X comes back up the
> keyboard does not respond. This may occur because /etc/init.d/dbus
> restart stops dbus, and then can't bring dbus back up because the X
> session has crashed around it; that would prevent the X server from
> talking to HAL to get input devices. (To prevent that kind of problem,
> the X server really shouldn't expect to get input devices from HAL if it
> can't connect to dbus.)
>
Are you using gnome-session 2.26? I've been told it dies on dbus
shutdown, and that's been fixed in the latest upload.
Cheers,
Julien
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